Swimming and diving brings back alumni meet

Friday, September 18, 2009

For the first time since 2006, the Jayhawk swimming and diving team will host an alumni meet.

The event, set to take place at Robinson Natatorium today at 4 p.m., experienced a brief hiatus simply as a result of poor timing. Coach Clark Campbell mentioned the team always seemed to be either busy or out of town. Despite the past scheduling problems, Campbell and his staff hope to make the meet an annual event.

“I’ve never participated in an alumni meet,” junior swimmer Alyssa Potter said. “So it should be a lot of fun.”

Potter’s recruiting trip took place the last time the swimming and diving team hosted the alumni meet. She’s looking forward to meeting and reuniting with several of the alumni.

“They’re really good to talk to and relate with,” Potter said.

The past two years the Jayhawks hosted an intrasquad meet to serve as a warm-up for the season. The team will still host its yearly intrasquad meet on Oct. 9 in addition to the alumni meet, the first meet of the season.

“It’s the first meet, you don’t know what shape you’re in,” former Kansas swimmer Maria Mayrovich said. “You just go for your best.”

The presence of an estimated 50 to 75 alumni also allows the athletes to gaze into the program’s long history. Several alumni from past men’s swimming and diving teams will compete in the day’s events. The men’s swimming and diving program was cut in the early 2000s.

“A lot of men swimmers are excited about racing our collegiate women swimmers,” Campbell said.

The event provides the athletes and alumni with a chance to have some good-spirited fun.

A pentathlon of swimming events, including 50-yard sprints of three separate strokes, a 200-yard medley relay, and a 200-yard free style relay, is planned. Several diving events will accompany the races. One of which entails the divers taking three dives from either the one-meter or three-meter board, with the score from their best dive kept.

Campbell said he hoped the return of the alumni meet would give the current Jayhawk swimmers and divers an opportunity to see that their swimming or diving career doesn’t have to end when they graduate.

“You don’t just have to hang up your suit and goggles,” Campbell said.

— — Edited by Lauren Cunningham

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